Stuck in a restrictive environment where you can’t alter your homepage settings? Check out the below WSH shell script to alter your homepage in Internet Explorer via the registry:

Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
‘ home page URL
StartPage = “http://www.yaduk.co.uk”
WSHShell.RegWrite “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page”, StartPage
WSHShell.RegWrite “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page”, StartPage

Stick in a text file with the extension .vbs

Below is a great code snippet to process XML dynamically through an XMLHttpRequest (XHR) request. From this further XSLT processing can be applied dynamically utilising Internet Explorers “fragment” transformations.